Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am pleased to speak in support of the Australian Energy Market Amendment (AEMO and Other Measures) Bill 2009. I will not speak at length on this bill, as it contains only relatively minor amendments to bring legislation up to date with the establishment of the Australian Energy Market Operator. The Australian Energy Market Operator will replace the previous body, the National Electricity Market Management Company, and assume the retail and wholesale gas market operation performed by the states and territories. In such operations, it is always very important right from the word go to correctly pronounce the acronyms. We have the ‘NEM’ and now we have the ‘AEMO’. I commend the department on its choice of pronunciation there. With ‘emo’ in the title it is a very modern title! It embraces generation Y! For those older people here—

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